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Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American city

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Baltimore is the
setting for (and typifies) one of the most penetrating examinations
of bigotry and residential segregation ever published in the United
States. Antero Pietila shows how continued discrimination practices
toward African Americans and Jews have shaped the cities in which we
now live. Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes
influenced even the federal government's actions toward housing in
the 20th century, dooming American cities to ghettoization. This
all-American tale is told through the prism of Baltimore, from its
early suburbanization in the 1880s to the consequences of "white
flight" after World War II, and into the first decade of the
twenty-first century. The events are real, and so are the heroes and
villains. Mr. Pietila's engrossing story is an eye-opening journey
into city blocks and neighborhoods, shady practices, and ruthless
promoters.